Rat or mouse?.

Keithmac · 31 Mar 2018

Hello all!, was in the loft yesterday and noticed one of the traps had gone off.

Can't decide weather it's a mouse or a baby rat?. Thinking mouse due to the big ears but not sure?.

We have a field behind our house and the occasional visitor turns up now and again.

And animal experts care to have a look?.

Cheers, Keith.

TicTac · 31 Mar 2018

Size is right for a mouse, ears and nose suggest a baby rat. Time will tell.

Tigercubrider · 31 Mar 2018

Mouse has my vote

sodthisforfun · 31 Mar 2018

It's a baby rat. The cat caught a few of em last summer.

JohnD · 31 Mar 2018

I think this is a mouse

or maybe a hamster

http://iserveyoumaster.isnichwahr.de/conversion/538b06cbcd1a8bdf6a3bb22441f45544960e83df/gif.mp4

Keithmac · 31 Mar 2018

I was thinking mouse due to hairy tail BUT it has greasy fur like a rat.

We had bother a few years back but been quiet since touch wood.

sparkymarka · 1 Apr 2018

Mouse ....too small for a rat

Keithmac · 1 Apr 2018

Found an old nest today while sorting the loft out, quite big poos. Shod have taken a picture but I gloved up and just got rid of it asap!.

This is a picture of a Brown Rat (common rat?), they do look similar if it was a baby one?.

JohnD · 1 Apr 2018

rat poos are about the side and shape of a salted peanut

(but colour and taste are different)

Tigercubrider · 1 Apr 2018

And mouse droppings are similar in size to rice grains

Keithmac · 1 Apr 2018

Yep they were deffinitely not rice grain sized!.

sodthisforfun · 1 Apr 2018

Never seen droppings the size and shape of a peanut, must be well fed ones!

Hope this helps..!!

conny · 1 Apr 2018

This may help you to decide.

https://www.rentokil.co.uk/mice/rats-vs-mice/

transam · 1 Apr 2018

We have had a few instances of a reported gas leak in a prop , which has turned out to be a dead rat under the floor

had some woman report smelly water when she ran the tap , went there and there was a grey squirrel who had drowned in the cold tank and gone rotten

Had another case of a tap that was not running at a basin in a bath room , turned out that a bird had drowned in the cold tank rotted away and bits of it had got drawn into the cold supply and got stuck in the tap

Rats / vermin will chew at plastic pipe i.e hep 2 o ect and cause leaks , they seem to be attracted by the sound of water running in the pipe may be ???

Keithmac · 2 Apr 2018

I was genuinely surprised as above/ in the nest was a lighting cable that was completely untouched!.

Poo looks identical to sodthisforfun's picture or rat droppings unfortunately.

Rat or mouse?.

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